Laura Noordraven won the PhD Student of the Year (first prize) at 35th EFFoST Conference, 1-4 November 2021, Lausanne, Switserland, award given in collaboration with Cargill, for her PhD research on the ‘Impact of thermal processing and storage on the rheological and flavour aspects of chickpea-based systems: focus on whole chickpea and chickpea flours’. We are very proud on Laura for this international recognition of her work